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Video Shows IS Brainwashing Children as Islamist Fighters
June 29, 2017
A newly released propaganda video of the Islamic State (IS) shows graphic footage of psychological terror tactics, brutality, and violent punishment, to further the systematic indoctrination of children as "cub" fighters into the Islamist caliphate war machine.
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Criminals, Islamists Combine to Threaten Shipping Routes
June 29, 2017
The integration of criminal networks with globalizing Islamist radical networks in the sea lanes of Southeast Asia has catalyzed a major spike in piracy and a sharp deterioration in the maritime security environment of two-thirds of the world's shipping activities.
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Boko Haram Targets Higher Education in Nigeria
June 29, 2017
Boko Haram, the extremist Islamist group whose name means "Western education is forbidden," launched a series of suicide attacks against the university in the country's major northeastern city of Maiduguri, prompting local state officials to begin digging a trench around the university as a deterrent to further jihadi operations.
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Islamist Radicals Advance as Afghan State Fails
June 29, 2017
The creeping advance of Taliban forces and the steady expansion of an Islamic State presence in geopolitically important Afghanistan is intensifying the debate among US policymakers and local commentators about the efficacy of military versus political solutions to the legitimacy and capacity failures of the Afghan state.
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Germany Targets Dozens over "Hate Speech" Postings
June 28, 2017
AP reports that German law enforcement authorities recently targeted 36 people in the country with home searches, questioning, and unspecified "further measures" over online postings the authorities deemed to be "hate speech."